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  • The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

    Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.456
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